The week in wildlife - in pictures

One of the winning entries from the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards – a synchronised caterpillar eating team taken by Georgia Hardy, 12, which won the 12 to 15-year-old group Photograph: Georgia Hardy/PA

A flock of flamingoes dot a wet land on Khadir Island, India Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP

A Sea Feather among the dead coral of the Bar Reef marine sanctuary of Kalpitiya beach, Colombo, Sri Lanka Photograph: M.A.Pushpa Kumara/EPA

A white headed eagle flies at the Olympic stadium in Rome Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

A mahout washes an elephant in a pool at Gangaramaya Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

A group of Angus cattle in the snow in a corral near Ellis, Kansas in the US Photograph: Reuters

A three-day-old rare white kiwi chick at the Mount Bruce national wildlife centre in the Wairarapa region, New Zealand Photograph: Mike Heydon/Lisa Sims Limited/EPA

A young Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) monkey sits on a iron fence eating a carrot in New Delhi, India Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

A Hebrew Character moth. Butterflies and moths have been baffled by this year's extreme weather, with many species appearing at unusual times Photograph: Mark Parsons/PA

A bearded dragon warms himself by lights turned on because of the unseasonally cold temperatures at Australian Reptile Park, New South Wales Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images

Jackdaws rest on antennas in Courchevel, in the French Alps Photograph: Robert Pratta/Reuters

Staff carry out a health check on one of the three 12-week-old tiger cubs in their enclosure at Chester Zoo Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

African Sulcata giant tortoise hatchlings in Linton, Cambridgeshire. Some of the 45 hatchlings with their mother Kali, 30 Photograph: Linton Zoo/Rex Features

A man feeds pigeons in front of the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Seven-month-old lion cubs gather around an adult white lioness in Belgrade's Zoo Photograph: Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters

Migratory birds rest at the Gharana wetland near the India-Pakistan border in Ranbir Singh Pura Photograph: Channi Anand/AP

Balinese men plant mangrove tree seeds as part of a tree planting campaign in Benoa, Indonesia Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA